Chapter 82: Old Scores and New World
The next morning, in Xia's restaurant.
Su Xiao chewed on his food, while Xia across the table kept yawning repeatedly.
"Ah~ life, huh."
Xia sighed, her face full of despair.
"What's wrong?"
Su Xiao put down his chopsticks. Normally, Xia wouldn't sigh like this.
"I've made an enemy."
"Oh?"
Su Xiao looked at Xia with confusion. He couldn't imagine who a worker like Xia would have a grudge with.
"Remember that red-eyed boy you sent to help me?"
Xia's expression turned serious.
"Black Blood?"
"Yeah, him. I think I've made an enemy out of him."
"..."
Su Xiao stared at Xia in surprise, unable to understand why she would have a conflict with Black Blood.
"Last time, after he helped me deal with the enemies, he escorted me out of that grassland with a few others. I don't know what I did wrong, but he kept staring at me. Scared me half to death—I almost peed my pants. Before leaving, he said, 'If I kill you, what would happen?' Tell me, isn't that making an enemy? Why would he want to kill me? I'm innocent. I barely even dared to look at him."
Xia grew more aggrieved as she spoke. She couldn't understand why Black Blood's attitude had changed so drastically.
"That's it?"
"That's not 'it'! I feel like my life's in danger. That kid would literally swallow people whole, chew them up, crunch, crunch..."
Xia trailed off, realizing Su Xiao was still eating breakfast and that talking about such disgusting things wasn't appropriate.
"No problem. Black Blood is a bit mentally unstable. In professional terms, he has antisocial personality disorder plus mental disorder."
"Wait, so he's crazy?"
"You could say that."
Xia was momentarily speechless. Su Xiao had just finished breakfast, paid the bill, and stood up to leave. His remaining time in Reincarnation Paradise was limited, and he only had 114,280 Paradise Coins left. As for that 1 million Paradise Coins, he had used them all to upgrade the Goddess's Favor ability.
[Goddess's Favor: LV.50 (Passive Skill)]
Skill Effect: Luck attribute permanently +6 (increased by 2 points).
Note: Every 10 levels this ability increases, it grants an additional 1 point of Luck attribute.
...
The higher the level of Goddess's Favor, the more expensive the upgrade cost. At LV.50, each level cost 70,000 Paradise Coins.
Su Xiao now had two options. One was to go to the Arena and try to break into the top ten, but due to certain special reasons, his ranking in the Arena couldn't be too high—at least not in the near future.
Unable to fight in the Arena, Su Xiao could only go and train his close combat skills with Sha. However, because Sha was too strong and the goal was to hone close combat, Su Xiao couldn't use his blade. The result was predictable.
Although he got beaten up pretty badly by Sha in the training ground, Su Xiao's close combat skills skyrocketed. What he lacked wasn't experience, but technique and insight—both of which could be mastered in a short amount of time.
"Your center of gravity is too far back. Like this."
In the dojo of the training ground, a burst of air exploded, followed by a loud crash.
"This is how you do a side kick..."
Before Sha could finish her sentence, she clutched her lower abdomen with one hand, her face instantly turning pale.
"Those bastards who flick fireballs with little sticks!"
Sweat dripped down Sha's chin. The black scar on her side flickered on and off, accelerating its erosion of her life force.
"This thing... I can help you remove it."
Su Xiao spat out a mouthful of blood-tinged saliva, a gentle smile appearing on his face. It was the first time Sha had seen him smile like that.
"Then... get to it."
Sha was already half-kneeling on the ground.
"If I completely remove this thing for you, you'll only die faster."
Su Xiao's fingertip touched the black scar. Cyan Steel Shadow energy surged, gradually devouring the energy within the scar. After consuming most of it, Su Xiao withdrew the Cyan Steel Shadow energy.
"Huff~ How did you do that? Oh right, you're a Law Destroyer."
Sha's expression visibly relaxed. As Su Xiao had said earlier, if a Law Destroyer helped her remove the energy within that scar, she would die faster and more miserably.
"Continue."
Sha lunged at Su Xiao. In the blink of an eye, the two were locked in combat. Ten seconds later, Su Xiao was kicked flying.
Time passed quickly as they honed close combat skills. When Su Xiao received a notification from Reincarnation Paradise, he was too exhausted to stand, only able to sit on the ground.
"That was a satisfying workout."
Sha, bare-chested, put on her shirt. Su Xiao suspected she didn't care about gender differences at all—or rather, the tomboy Sha was just like that.
"Don't forget that matter. If you ever get a chance to enter the Void, notify me in advance."
Sha teleported away. Su Xiao's remaining time was also limited; he was about to return to the Real World.
...
On the second floor of the Accessory Shop, with three thuds, Su Xiao, Bubu Wang, and Amu were teleported there.
Su Xiao exchanged a glance with Bubu Wang, then they both looked at Amu.
Amu's appearance had changed drastically. His bull horns were now disguised. To outsiders, Amu looked like an extremely muscular man—the kind you wouldn't want to mess with just by looking at him.
Amu curiously looked around. He had never been to the Real World before, and everything here was novel to him.
Clearly, after Amu was promoted to an attached follower, he could enter the Real World. Fortunately, his appearance wouldn't arouse suspicion, and Reincarnation Paradise wouldn't allow such a situation to occur.
"Bubu, tell Amu what he needs to be careful about in the Real World."
Su Xiao changed his clothes. With nothing else to do, he planned to go fishing by the nearby river.
Bubu Wang sat upright in front of Amu and began explaining what to be careful about in the Real World, such as not eating random things.
After being promoted to a Fourth Rank Contractor, Su Xiao no longer really cared about hiding his identity in the Real World. He had always followed the principle of not bothering others unless they bothered him. In the Real World without missions, Su Xiao had basically made no enemies. Or rather, those who could truly threaten him wouldn't be fooled by him deliberately hiding his identity anyway. The Scavenger organization's internal evaluation of him was interesting: danger level was extremely dangerous, but threat level was low to medium.
Life in the Real World was exceptionally peaceful. Su Xiao's mind gradually relaxed, because in the next derivative world, he would kill many enemies.
When Su Xiao had fully adjusted his state, the notification from Reincarnation Paradise arrived. He was about to enter a new derivative world.
[A new derivative world is about to open. The Hunter will return to Reincarnation Paradise. Please ensure there are no witnesses.]
[Teleporting... Teleportation complete.]
In his Exclusive Room, Su Xiao sat up. He would enter a new derivative world in one hour. Checking his storage space, his recovery items were still sufficient. He had previously spent 100,000 Paradise Coins to craft 10 bottles of Ancient Secret Medicine.
Su Xiao dialed someone's long-distance communication and began waiting for a response.
Ten minutes. Half an hour.
"Hurry, now's the time."
An unfamiliar male voice came through the communicator. At the same time, Su Xiao crushed a fountain pen in his hand. This was a World Key. He was about to settle old scores with the Blood Gate.